Despite the name of the blog, these are not actually tall tales. They are the stories of my adventures while preaching the gospel to the people of Oregon and Washington.

Monday, February 22, 2016

Stick to your task til it sticks to you!

February 22, 2016

Hola!

It's been a good week. Nothing as crazy as last
week, but we had somesolid appointments. We also had a regional
broadcast from SLC for ourchurch which was pretty good. Elder Renlund
spoke about how to explainthings to nonmembers or people who question
church policy. He saidthat every time a question arises, we have to
answer it by firstexplaining revelation or the Plan of Salvation
so that it can beunderstood in context.

Most of our investigators have been kind of
flakey this week, but atleast we finally got the ward mission plan to
every family. Prettyexciting ha.

We also went to a great baptism yesterday. It
wasn't our investigator,but he was Tongan so we decided to go so we
could meet his nonmemberfriends. It ended up being one of the best
baptisms I've been to sofar on my mission. He had been taught by many,
many missionaries whilehe was investigating and most of them were able
to get a ride back tothe baptism. A lot of them started crying when
he got baptized andthat got me thinking about charity and
developing love for thepeople we teach. It's important to baptize, and
we're told to do thatover and over again. But if we are unchanged by
the experience we'vecompleted only half of our purpose.

Sorry for the short email, I was on a hike took
most of our P-day.Have a great week!

~Elder Paul Thomas

“Stick to your task
’til it sticks to you; Beginners are
many, but enders are few. Honor, power,
place and praise Will always
come to the one who stays. “Stick to your task
’til it sticks to you; Bend at it,
sweat at it, smile at it, too; For out of the
bend and the sweat and the smile Will come
life’s victories after a while.” --Author Unknown

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P.s. Sorry apparently the email server in our mission
didn't really worklast week so if you were expecting an email and
didn't get one justlet me know it didn't go through